afghanistan

CSTO will not send troops to Afghanistan

Published on: August 31, 2021
10:08

Moscow, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) The secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Stanislav Zas, said that the alliance has a defensive policy and does not plan to send troops to Afghanistan.

Hundreds of UK citizens stranded in Afghanistan after evacuation ends

Published on: August 31, 2021
07:53

London, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Tuesday said that hundreds of British citizens have been stranded in Afghanistan after the evacuation of foreign troops ended, and admitted that leaving the country will be difficult.

Drought threatens the livelihoods of 7 million farmers in Afghanistan

Published on: August 31, 2021
07:51

Rome, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Monday appealed for a greater humanitarian assistance to be scaled up as Afghanistan continues to be hit hard by an ever-worsening drought that threatens the livelihoods of over 7 million people who rely on agriculture and livestock.

Last US troops leave Afghanistan after nearly 20 years

Published on: August 31, 2021
07:47

Washington, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) After 20 years of occupation, a military C-17 carried the last US troops out of Afghanistan on Monday, marking the formal and of the longest war in US history.

WHO starts humanitarian aid air corridor to Afghanistan

Published on: August 30, 2021
18:51

Kabul, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) A humanitarian corridor to Afghanistan started on Monday with the arrival of the first shipment of international medical aid to that country since it fell into the hands of the Taliban.

UK’s evacuation from Afghanistan a humiliation

Published on: August 30, 2021
18:03

London, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) British Conservative lawmaker Tobias Ellwood on Monday described the hasty way in which the United Kingdom evacuated its personnel and Afghan collaborators after the Taliban's return to power as humiliation.

Spain makes preliminary assessment of its actions in Afghanistan

Published on: August 30, 2021
11:59

Madrid, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) Spain evacuated 2,200 people from Afghanistan, most of them with requests for political asylum, while stressing that it is open to operational contacts without recognizing the Taliban regime.

Russia maintains normal relations with any power in Afghanistan

Published on: August 30, 2021
10:27

Moscow, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) The special representative of the Russian president for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, acknowledged today that his country establishes contacts with the Taliban movement and considered it necessary to maintain normal relations with any authority in that Central Asian nation.

Biden meets grieving families and honors troops killed in Afghanistan

Published on: August 30, 2021
07:21

Washington, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) President Joe Biden met in solemn privacy Sunday with the families of the 13 US troops killed in the suicide attack near the Kabul airport as the remains of their loved ones returned to US soil from Afghanistan.

More than 500,000 refugees from Afghanistan estimated

Published on: August 28, 2021
11:04

Kabul, Aug 28 (Prensa Latina) More than 500,000 people might flee Afghanistan before the end of this year, local media estimated on Saturday.

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